ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux and Mac released

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Microsoft yesterday announced the release of ODBC Driver 13.1 for Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE) which enables access to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DW from any C/C++ application on Linux.

New features:

  • BCP API Support 
    • You can use functions through the ODBC driver as described here on Linux
  • Support for user defined KeyStoreProvider for Always Encrypted
    • You can now user defined/created AE Column Master Key keystore providers. Check out code samples and more information here.
  • Ubuntu 16.10 support
    • Developed a package for Ubuntu 16.10 to ensure an apt-get install experience
  • Dependency on the platform unixODBC Driver Manager instead of the custom unixODBC-utf16 Driver Manager
    • This avoids conflicts with applications/software that depends on the platform unixODBC Driver Manager

Microsoft yesterday also released the ODBC Driver 13.1 for macOS – Preview. This release adds support for macOS El Capitan with unixODBC Driver Manager and enables access to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse from any C/C++ application.

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